Category: people

“When you click on any of the site’s tabs … the screen launches visitors on an in-your-face, Alice-down-the-rabbit-hole journey … Along the way, you are also treated to views of Carrey’s eyeball, a giant squid, and the actor posed as Adam from Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling. The site is also filled with Easter Eggs.”

How the country music legend, at the peak of his fame, took up the Native American cause, battled the music industry over his album of “Indian protest ballads” (which some DJs called “un-American”), and sang one of those ballads literally to Richard Nixon’s face.

Says Britain’s former prima ballerina assoluta: “I have relaxed. My husband never thought it was possible. … For me, it’s just trying to know who I am now that I am not a dancer, because I have only known myself as a dancer. So being a mum really isn’t such a bad thing. … I am enjoying it. So far.”

“A British art curator and his daughter have been found dead of multiple stab wounds alongside an injured toddler at a million-dollar home in Sydney’s affluent eastern suburbs.” Police “found the bodies of Nick Waterlow, 68, and his daughter Chloe, 37, a cookbook author, on Monday night.” Nick Waterlow’s mentally ill son is said to be the suspect.

Once the most glamorous of classical guitarists (and a former belle of Pierre Trudeau), Boyd has come through a painful divorce, a vida loca in Miami and a battle with focal dystonia to arrive at a new career as a singer-songwriter.

“In Asian culture, you don’t have a voice. You just accept what everybody says.” The star Bangladeshi-British choreographer, dubbed a “great new hope” of dance, still lives around the corner from his parents and claims he never stood up to anyone in his community: “No, because it’s a form of disrespect. … I disagreed all the time, but it was in my head.”

“Considered one of 20th-century Spain’s most distinguished intellectuals, Mr. Ayala was routinely mentioned as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Besides being a novelist, he was a poet, critic, essayist, lawyer and academic sociologist. Much of his work was banned in Spain during the Franco era.”

He was “an international star in the rival Ballet Russe companies who stood out for his matinee-idol looks and bold stage presence and who later became one of American ballet’s respected teachers.”

“[With] Renée and me, there’s no barrier … We can do anything with each other and we don’t care. … One of the reviews said we seemed giddy in bed together, and we really were.” (She’s talking about playing Octavian to Fleming’s Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier at the Met; the ex-boyfriend is conductor Edo de Waart.)

“She was an amphetamine-addicted author of sub-Dan Brown potboilers, who in her spare time wrote lavish torrents of praise for serial killers and the Bernie Madoff-style embezzlers of her day. … So how did this little Russian bomb of pure immorality in a black wig become an American icon?”